FWD: Research Officer - Microfinance impact assessment

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De: Susan Johnson [mailto:suzanjohnson@compuserve.com]
Date: mercredi 21 juillet 1999 12:11
À: Devfinance list
Objet: JOB ADVERT: Research Officer - Microfinance


JOB ADVERT:
RESEARCH OFFICER: Microfinance


THE PROJECT

The project, funded by the Ford Foundation and planned by a consortium of
IDS and Bath and Sheffield Universities, will design impact assessment
methodologies with and for microfinance institutions worldwide. The
appointments is available for twelve months from 30 September 1999. This
period comprises the preparatory Phase I of a proposed four-year project;
the action Phase II is expected to begin in June 2000.

During Phase I, members of the coordination committee, in liaison with Ford
Foundation staff and members of the ‘Development Finance Leaders’ Forum’,
will hold consultations with a range of microfinance institutions with the
purpose of understanding what impact assessment technologies are currently
in use, what research on these technologies is felt to be required and how
Ford Foundation finance can most effectively be used in Phase II. The
members of the Project Steering Committee have already sketched out ideas
for possible research work in Phase II, in the form of a concept paper
(Proposals for the Planning Stage of the Ford Foundation Action-Research
Programme into Assessing the Impact of Development Finance) and this is
attached. The job of the Research Officer will be to help the Steering
Committee members meld together their existing ideas with priorities
emerging from discussion with overseas financial institutions so as to
produce an action plan for Phase II of the project. During May 2000 a work
shop is planned to be attended by representatives of development finance
institutions, Ford Foundation staff and researchers, and this will provide
an opportunity for reviewing the best and most innovative impact assessment
methodologies currently in use or planned. At this workshop, or shortly
after, a limited number of microfinance institutions (possibly not more
than ten worldwide) will be selected to collaborate with the Foundation and
the Steering Committee members in Phase II, from June 2000 until June 2003.



THE POSITION

The duties of the Research Officer within this process, therefore, are
expected to be the following:

to facilitate effective communications between all parties during Phase I
of the project;
to assist the Steering Committee in elaborating their individual plans for
Stage 2, based on their respective concept papers;
to assist the Steering Committee in ensuring that these individual plans
are consistent and add up to a coherent overall plan for Phase II;
to ensure that planning for Phase II is fully up to date with development
finance impact assessment literature, and to produce a short survey of this
literature.

The administration of Phase I of the project is in the hands of the
Institute of Development Studies (contacts: Martin Greeley and Jutta
Blauert) but the project is administered on an equal basis by all three of
the participating institutions and the appointee to this position may live
wherever she or he chooses during the period of the appointment, subject to
meeting the requirement of being able to communicate and coordinate
effectively between the members of the consortium. There will be some
overseas travel for the appointee, notably to the annual meeting of the
Ford Foundation Development Finance Leaders’ Forum in Hyderabad in October
1999 and very probably to discussions with overseas microfinance
institutions.



QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Applicants for the position should satisfy the following requirements:

field experience related to microfinance or SME development in developing
countries;
exceptional listening and communication skills;
a postgraduate qualification in a relevant social science and an
interdisciplinary knowledge of the development literature;

Awareness of impact assessment techniques, whether formal or informal and
in whatever field or country, would be an additional advantage.


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The terms and conditions are those relating to the universities' research
faculty. The appointment will be full-time and fixed-term for one year, in
the first instance, from a date to be determined in the autumn of 1999.



SALARY

The salary will be within Grade I of the universities' research faculty
scales, according to age and experience (£17,570 - £22,000 Award Pending).


CLOSING DATE: 6 August 1999
INTERVIEW DATE: 1 September 1999


APPLICATIONS ON OFFICIAL FORM ONLY TO:

Mrs Lin Briggs
Personnel Office
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE

Confidential Fax and Answerphone: 01273-674553 [Int +44 1273]
E-mail : personnel@ids.ac.uk
These Further Particulars are also available on the IDS web site at
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/news/recruit/index.html


We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community
regardless of race, sex, disability, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and age



The Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, Brighton
BN1 9RE, UK
Tel: (01273) 606261 (Intl + 44 1273), Confidential Fax and Answerphone:
(01273) 674553 (Intl + 44 1273)





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-----Message d'origine-----
De: Susan Johnson [mailto:suzanjohnson@compuserve.com]
Date: mercredi 21 juillet 1999 12:11
À: Devfinance list
Objet: JOB ADVERT: Research Officer - Microfinance


JOB ADVERT:
RESEARCH OFFICER: Microfinance


THE PROJECT

The project, funded by the Ford Foundation and planned by a consortium of
IDS and Bath and Sheffield Universities, will design impact assessment
methodologies with and for microfinance institutions worldwide. The
appointments is available for twelve months from 30 September 1999. This
period comprises the preparatory Phase I of a proposed four-year project;
the action Phase II is expected to begin in June 2000.

During Phase I, members of the coordination committee, in liaison with Ford
Foundation staff and members of the ‘Development Finance Leaders’ Forum’,
will hold consultations with a range of microfinance institutions with the
purpose of understanding what impact assessment technologies are currently
in use, what research on these technologies is felt to be required and how
Ford Foundation finance can most effectively be used in Phase II. The
members of the Project Steering Committee have already sketched out ideas
for possible research work in Phase II, in the form of a concept paper
(Proposals for the Planning Stage of the Ford Foundation Action-Research
Programme into Assessing the Impact of Development Finance) and this is
attached. The job of the Research Officer will be to help the Steering
Committee members meld together their existing ideas with priorities
emerging from discussion with overseas financial institutions so as to
produce an action plan for Phase II of the project. During May 2000 a work
shop is planned to be attended by representatives of development finance
institutions, Ford Foundation staff and researchers, and this will provide
an opportunity for reviewing the best and most innovative impact assessment
methodologies currently in use or planned. At this workshop, or shortly
after, a limited number of microfinance institutions (possibly not more
than ten worldwide) will be selected to collaborate with the Foundation and
the Steering Committee members in Phase II, from June 2000 until June 2003.



THE POSITION

The duties of the Research Officer within this process, therefore, are
expected to be the following:

to facilitate effective communications between all parties during Phase I
of the project;
to assist the Steering Committee in elaborating their individual plans for
Stage 2, based on their respective concept papers;
to assist the Steering Committee in ensuring that these individual plans
are consistent and add up to a coherent overall plan for Phase II;
to ensure that planning for Phase II is fully up to date with development
finance impact assessment literature, and to produce a short survey of this
literature.

The administration of Phase I of the project is in the hands of the
Institute of Development Studies (contacts: Martin Greeley and Jutta
Blauert) but the project is administered on an equal basis by all three of
the participating institutions and the appointee to this position may live
wherever she or he chooses during the period of the appointment, subject to
meeting the requirement of being able to communicate and coordinate
effectively between the members of the consortium. There will be some
overseas travel for the appointee, notably to the annual meeting of the
Ford Foundation Development Finance Leaders’ Forum in Hyderabad in October
1999 and very probably to discussions with overseas microfinance
institutions.



QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Applicants for the position should satisfy the following requirements:

field experience related to microfinance or SME development in developing
countries;
exceptional listening and communication skills;
a postgraduate qualification in a relevant social science and an
interdisciplinary knowledge of the development literature;

Awareness of impact assessment techniques, whether formal or informal and
in whatever field or country, would be an additional advantage.


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The terms and conditions are those relating to the universities' research
faculty. The appointment will be full-time and fixed-term for one year, in
the first instance, from a date to be determined in the autumn of 1999.



SALARY

The salary will be within Grade I of the universities' research faculty
scales, according to age and experience (£17,570 - £22,000 Award Pending).


CLOSING DATE: 6 August 1999
INTERVIEW DATE: 1 September 1999


APPLICATIONS ON OFFICIAL FORM ONLY TO:

Mrs Lin Briggs
Personnel Office
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE

Confidential Fax and Answerphone: 01273-674553 [Int +44 1273]
E-mail : personnel@ids.ac.uk
These Further Particulars are also available on the IDS web site at
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/news/recruit/index.html


We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community
regardless of race, sex, disability, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and age



The Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, Brighton
BN1 9RE, UK
Tel: (01273) 606261 (Intl + 44 1273), Confidential Fax and Answerphone:
(01273) 674553 (Intl + 44 1273)





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